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    Connecticut!

    I have for sale a pair of lovely Dutch Hookbills from Holderread if anyone is interested. They are a very rare breed of duck from Holland that lay a green egg.
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    Euskal Oiloa ( Basque Thread)

    It is my "almost white" pullet from Skyline that lays the wonderful plum coloured egg. So far they have been turned into crepes or omelettes before I have managed to get a picture. I was puzzled to see the colour seems to fade as the egg ages and is at its best colour in the first few hours...
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    Euskal Oiloa ( Basque Thread)

    It has what looks like a white powdery glaze and is a lovely purpley brown...... It is just impossible to get a good photo that really shows the colour. I don't have any white egg layers or I could photograph her egg up against the white ones so you could really see the" purpleyness". Pretty....
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    Euskal Oiloa ( Basque Thread)

    Good gracious, one of my EO pullets just laid her first egg and it is Plum coloured!!! Very pretty! Is this a normal colour for these girls to lay??
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    Normal Rooster Behaviour

    I am curious to have the low down on the pattern of behaviours you can expect from roosters as they grow. I have more than a dozen roosters at the moment of varying ages and the only mature roo is a bantam silkie who although a gentleman is overwhelmed. It seems to me cockrels are rather like...
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    Auction ~36 hours~ 12+ Colloncas eggs

    Congrats Green Earth! I have 8 I hatched from Yashar a few months ago and I absolutely love them. Be warned though, you will soon be itching to try his Huastec and then Sweet Potatoes and then ....................Love them all!!
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    OK What do you think this is??

    No No!! That is Turnip!! He is my Black Showgirl. He was the strangest looking thing I had ever seen when hatched. Looked like he had been sucked up the vacuum backwards and still does!
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    The Legbar Thread!

    Oh dear, didn't mean to stir up such a storm! I haven't seen Mareks before and was puzzled as to how she could have it. To fill you in a bit, she was vaccinated as a chick as a day old and arrived to be brooded inside the house. I have just moved to a new house and neither the old or new...
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